Chapter 5, Item 152a
Turners tools
A Turners, or Throwers Tools.
A Lath with all its appurtenances or members thereunto belonging which you will find named c.8. n.149.
The Seat, where the Turner sitteth when he is Turning.
Gouges of all sorts, bigg and little, wide and narrow.
Hooks or Hook Gouges of several sorts.
Grooving Hooks, and Grooving Tools.
Chisels, and flat Chisels.
A Mandrel, a Broad flat Mandrel.
A Pin Mandrel, and an Hollow Mandrel.
A Screw Mandrel.
Collars of several fashions, with the joynt and round Collars.
A Mawl,
An Hatchet,
A Draw-Knife,
A Cleaving Knife,
A Chopping or Hacking Block.
A Pair of Compasses,
The Callippers, Compasses with crooked shanks to measure the Diameter of any round body.
A Drill-bench,
A Swash Board,
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Chapter 5, Item 152b
Braziers equipment
The Brasiers turning Tools.
The Brasiers Lath, with its Members: see chap.8. numb.162.
An Iron Vice,
Hooks or Edge Tools.
An Iron Lath, called a Turn Bench.
A Drill-bow, and Drill-string,
A Graver and a Sculptor, of these there are round and flat, great and small, to the intended Moldings, in the Work.
A Turning Engin, by which Oval Work is turned, also Rose Work, and Swash Work is made: chap. 8. numb.143. 163.
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Chapter 5, Item 152c
Turners terms
Terms of Art used by the Throwers or Turners in their Exercises.
Axis, is the imagined straight Lines that passes through the two Center-points that turned Work is turned upon.
Crook or Crank, is the end of an Iron Axis, turned square down and again turned square to the first turning down, so that at the last turning down a Leather Thong is slipt, to tread the treadle Wheel about.
Female Screw, the Screw made in a round hole of a Nut, or Box.
Male Screw, the Screw made upon a Shank, or Pin.
Nut, a piece of Iron that the Female Screw is made in.
Swash Work, is a Figure whose circumference is not round but Oval; and whose Molding lie not at right Angles, but oblique to the Axis of the Work.
Wabble, is when a piece of Work is not pitcht true upon its Centers, and it will in a revolution incline more to one side of its circumference than on its opposite side.
There are several other Terms used in the Exercises of Turners not mentioned here: which are used in the Trades of Joyners, Carvers, Carpenters; in which Occupations they are set down, to which I shall referr you.
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